Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Grow Your Twitter Followers in Less Than 5 Minutes A Day

Several months ago, I saw New York Times bestselling author of Twitter Power, Joel Comm and told him that I had
over 100,000 followers. He told me, “You have twitter power.”

If you check my
twitter following, I recently went over 136,000 followers. For the last
several months, they have been growing at about 100 new followers each
day. I'll admit some of this growth is organic and not the result from
anything that I'm actively doing. But a good portion of my daily growth comes
from my active involvement and use of a tool called Refollow. I use the pro
version which is $20 a month but it is well-worth it from my perspective. In
less than five minutes a day, I'm able to follow 800 new people.

One of the keys to effective use of social media from my perspective is to
not allow it to suck large amounts of your time. For months, I've been using Refollow and whether I'm on
the road or at home, using it does not take more than five minutes. In
fact, often I spend less than five minutes.

Here's the home page:

One of the basic principles of twitter is that you follow others and a
certain percentage of those people follow you back. I follow the followers of
leaders in the publishing and writing community. Here's how my numbers have been
increasing:

Here's the publishing people that I follow their followers:

Besides using Refollow, each day I use Hootsuite to regularly send out tweets to my followers. I make
sure I'm sending different articles and educational information about
publishing. I use the free version of Hootsuite and it does not take much time to load up this tool
so it will add tweets every hour throughout the day.

Finally every few days I use the free version of Manage Flitter. It allows me
to find the spam followers, the followers who do not speak English and also to
quickly unfollow people who have not followed me back. It can take a while to
load all of my followers and tweets for analysis but I simply open a tab and
allow it to work as I work on other things.

I have great things happen in my writing life because of being on twitter. I
regularly meet new writers and help them through my involvement on twitter. I'm
careful with my time so it does not consume my day. And it does not have
to consume your day. I wrote these details in this article so you can
follow my example and grow your own twitter following. If some detail is not
clear or you have questions, feel free to leave a comment below and I will
respond.

For every reader, I wish you great success on Twitter and that you too will
find Twitter Power.